Words you can find everywhere on the internet: DSLR cameras changed the way we shoot (and similar descriptions). It also changed the needs of course. What if you want to do some smooth and easy slider/dolly shots. You can choose between small sliders, or good old big fat dollys. What was missing for a long time is a slider/dolly solution perfectly fitting the size of DSLRs. The Good Dolly is a great tool for DSLR as it is not too heavy and big, you don´t need a lot of time (and people) for transport and setup, but it´s big and heavy enough to do really smooth dolly shots. Some first test ...
I´m about to bring my cameras, above all my Canon 5DmkII up there to shoot some videostuff. I think this is the most nerdy project i´ve ever started :-) A RC mikrokopter with RC remote head, GPS, videodownlink, all buildt by myself. It also took me about a year on a RC simulator to be able to fly a helicopter. Who wants to hang a 5DmkII on some RC helicopter not knowing if it will come down... well of course it will come down again, but it should do this in one piece. However, this project is coming to an end quite soon, and i couldn´t wait any longer to show you ...
Most of you who are into filmmaking and visiting vimeo from time to time might already know this short, but as i read chase jarvis blog this week, i noticed - not everyone does. So i think it really can´t be a bad idea to just post it here again. This still is the best short i´ve seen so far. No additional words needed, just watch: [fblike] ...